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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2103114" data-attributes="member: 158">Going with that analogy, Umbran, Shadowrun is to me a foreign film. Let's say it's a Japanese Animation. EVEN BETTER - Let's say that Shadowrun is Cowboy Bebop. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I Love Cowboy Bebop. It's possibly the only Anime I like that I've tried so far. But let's say that the company who made Bebop refused to allow an american company to come in, and re-dub the series. If you want to listen to it, it MUST be in the original Japanese. In fact, they won't even agree to put subtitles on the darned thing.When I look at untranslated Cowboy Bebop, it looks like it could be a cool series. In fact, when I watched the Re-dubbed Cowboy Bebop, to me the voice actors nailed it DEAD ON - the characterizations, the interplay between characters, the sound effects, the plot line - they nailed it and did such a smooth job, that they hooked me. Looking at the Cowboy Bebop that in an alternate universe the creating company refused to translate, it's nothing more than something that looks like it could be interesting, but for which I am not about to put the time and effort into following. I COULD take time to learn the language, but let's say Japanese is a tongue that I simply cannot master, or let's say that I could, when I wanted to, fluently understand Japanese, but putting so much effort into understanding it ruins my ability to actually sit down and enjoy the series.That's Shadowrun to me. The original has every right to exist, and no one's saying there should be no more run of CB in the original Japanese, but it'd be cool to me (and a few other people) if someone took time to make a version I could understand. SURE I'm missing all of the subtle nuances and word-plays of the original, but I'm getting enough out of the version I'm watching to make it worth my while.Just as translating a foreign film on the fly lessens my enjoyment of the finished product, the system mechanic for resolution in Shadowrun makes me slow down to a crashing halt while I tabulate up target numbers, count up succseses on dice, compare them to successes of my opponent, and gauge how many dice I'm going to spend on an action to make it worthwhile. Another gamer fluently familiar with Shadowrun's mechanics may find this a no-brainer, but I don't and it breaks my suspension fiercely like trying to ski on sandpaper.</blockquote>

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